In the first incident, two men called to a house offering building services which were never carried out. In the other, a man falsely claimed to be a neighbour's relative.

Tommy Barker An entire apartment development with 62 units in Cork city’s suburbs is for sale, as a single lot, being offered to investors with a guide price of €17.5m.

A community activist who led a campaign against widespread illegal dumping in parts of Cork’s northside says she will not be intimidated into silence after a manure attack on her car.

AN overseas property investment company acquired over 300 apartments in Cork in 2018, in two strong swoops for €67m combined - instantly making it the region’s largest PRS [Private Rented Sector] landlord to date.

AN overseas investment fund, as yet unconfirmed, is the buyer of the c€30 million residential-led investment sale of the City Square development, in Cork City’s Blackpool, which has a weekly income of €40,000, or c €2m per annum.

THE quiet market sale of a €30m-plus residential development, totalling 165 apartments in Cork’s Ballincollig, is likely to see a continuation of overseas buyers and funds now looking for multi-family investments of scale, outside of the Dublin market.

THE imminent sale of the Elysian tower development to an as-yet unconfirmed international fund, with 217 fully let apartments and commercial units at what’s understood to be a 5% return, may see a snowball effect of REITs and funds interested in Cork city’s multi-family unit sector.

10,000 cigarettes and 10kgs of tobacco, two cars and €7,000 in cash have been seized in Cork in raids by the Revenue.

The key to identifying Aidan O’Driscoll’s killers may be stored in cameras of drivers who were in the Blackpool area of Cork City hours before last week’s brutal murder.

A burglar who played guitar and sang during a presidential visit to Cork prison got a sentence of three years for his latest crime yesterday.

 

A residential investment currently earning €378,000 a year in rent, from 24 modern housing units, is up for sale, less than a kilometre from Cork city centre.

The death has occurred of one of Cork City’s longest-practicing property professionals, developer, estate agent and keen historian associated with the ArCH Project with UCC’s History department, Joe Carey.

Tim O’Connor returns from the kitchen with a pot of tea and two slices of currant cake before being drawn to a stack of sheets piled on the living room table.

Gardaí in Cork city were forced to deploy pepper spray in an effort to diffuse a fight between three non-nationals last night that resulted in one female garda being knocked the ground.

Millions of euros worth of Irish property was sold at two separate auctions yesterday, each streamed live online from Cork and Dublin, and they followed on from a further €12.5 million netted at the inaugural Allsop Private auction last week of 20 properties, at average sale prices of €625,000.

“The Probation Service is breaking down.”

IT’S THE season for detoxing, diets and doing right by your body. And given the time of year that’s in it, we’re being bombarded with information on what newfangled workouts we might be enjoying in 2015. 

A MUNSTER property auction is set to offer 30 lots to investors and buyers in Cork on October 2, following hot on the heels of a very successful Allsops auction last week that netted an all time high of €54m from 194 lots.

Gardaí are continuing their search for the hit-and-run driver of a silver British-registered BMW who knocked down a 12-year-old boy in Cork City.

Cork City Council should decide within weeks on a plan to allow a permitted retail scheme be changed to mainly office use.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after a pensioner was threatened with an iron bar during an aggravated burglary in his home, early yesterday, on the northside of Cork City.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating an aggravated burglary during which a pensioner was injured.

A NEW sales and letting pitch is to be tried at Cork’s City Square development — the pitch is ‘space for free.’

THE office relocation of Landmark Media Investments Ltd, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers, to Blackpool, in Cork, is the second significant office deal in the city in recent weeks.

A DEAL worth around €16m has been reached on the first bank/receiver sale of an entire apartment and retail scheme in Cork, at suburban Dennehy’s Cross.

A viable pipe bomb was this afternoon found and dismantled on Cork city's northside.

The Army bomb disposal unit is dealing with reports of a suspicious device in the Watercourse Road area on the northside of Cork city.

Esther N McCarthy dips, wheels and whirls to pick cute, clever and crafty gifts for everyone this festive season.

A Garda staff association has expressed serious concern at how the force in Cork City is going to cope after it was left with just one 24-hour station for the whole city.

City officials in Cork have been urged to investigate the removal of a landmark sculpture from a prominent city gateway site.

Householders and businesses are braced for the risk of further flash floods and crippling clean up costs as weather forecasters tonight warned of more heavy rain.

Power has been restored to all customers in the Cork suburb of Douglas following major flooding overnight, the ESB has confirmed.

ESB Networks is appealing to residents all over Cork to conserve electricity today, as they try to get customers back online after power outages caused by flooding.

More than 50 homes and many businesses were flooded and several thousand left without power after 50mm of rain fell in a seven-hour period across Cork.

GARDAÍ in Cork are investigating how a Christmas Day drugs party led to the death of two men — with one man dying on Christmas Day and the other on St Stephen’s Day.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating the deaths of two men on Christmas Day in the city.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for witnesses after a man was found with head injuries near a bar in the city.

A MOTORIST who rammed a Garda car three times in various parts of Cork city during a 35- minute escapade was jailed yesterday for two years.

Gardaí in Cork are making a fresh appeal for help in finding the man behind a vicious attack on a woman in the city on St Patrick's Day.

CORK’S city manager has pledged to use the full weight of the law to tackle dereliction blighting one of the city’s most historic communities.